The Army maintained a large inventory of facilities to house
personnel, to store equipment and other materiel, to provide offices and
services, and to support training functions. The Corps of Engineers (COE) was
responsible for building, modernizing, maintaining, and supplying physical
security equipment for these facilities. The following chapter presents the
major accomplishments of the Corps' mission.

The FY 84 Military Construction, Army, program value amounted
to $975.9 million with a goal of completing 95 percent of that program by the
fourth quarter of the fiscal year. COE surpassed that goal by 4.7 percent for a
total execution of $972.67 million. The COE added a $2 million carryover from
FY83 to the total funding available for the fiscal year. The FY 84 Military
Construction, Army Reserve, program totaled $34 million with an executing goal
of 95 percent by the fourth quarter. The Corps fulfilled 100 percent of the
program. The FY 84 Military Construction, Air Force, program amounted to
$1,194.38 million and the execution goal of 95 percent by the fourth quarter was
met exactly with expenditures of $1,134.54 million.

Miscellaneous non-Army construction programs equaled $374.93
million with an execution goal of 94 percent ($350.69 million) by the fourth
quarter. The Corps of Engineers executed only 84 percent ($314.17 million) of
the goal and attributed much of the delay to redesign efforts in the Defense
Language Institute and National Security Agency programs.

Work continued on the King Khalid Military City in Saudi
Arabia, which will house 70,000 people and three brigades of Saudi Arabian
troops. USACE, the organization responsible for contracting out the work,
provided design and construction services on approximately $17 billion worth of
projects since 1974. During FY84, the Saudis continued to become more involved
in developing and managing the contracts. The Corps finished construction of a
$4 million incinerator for the Japanese government on Yokota Air

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Base. The incinerator will burn all of the waste generated on
Yokota except for glass and rubber, thereby greatly reducing landfill
requirements. The U.S. Navy asked the COE to assist the Peruvian Navy in its
plans to build a base at Chimbote. The Corps will proceed with a base
development plan upon the approval of the Peruvian Navy and appropriation of
funding. WESTCOM requested Corps of Engineers planning assistance to revise
Hawaiian installation master plans. This was WESTCOM's first regional planning
effort since their 1979 establishment as a MACOM.

For the first time since becoming the Executive Agent for
recruiting facilities, the Chief of Engineers maintained direct control over
almost all of the recruiting facilities programs. The Corps completed 99.3
percent of the program's 2,048 actions by the fourth quarter, exceeding the goal
of 95 percent. In a 29 November 1983 meeting of the DOD Task Force on Recruiting
Facilities, the OCE representative from the Real Estate Directorate discussed
with the Recruiting Commands what initiatives the Corps had undertaken to
stabilize the program. The primary one was OCE's assuming the responsibility to
approve modifications to facilities. Previously, Corps district and division
commanders made these decisions. The Facilities and Installation Planning and
Design statistics are shown on the following tables. (See Tables 39 and
40.)

Representatives from the Directorate of Engineering arid
Construction, one Corps division, and several COE districts attended the FORSCOM
Design Review Conference from 31 May to I June. Attendees discussed military
construction project planning and development and participation by installation
personnel in subsequent design, construction, and operation. Conference members
also identified a number of areas of poor communication and lack of common
understanding among the installations, Corps districts, and the Office of the
Chief of Engineers.

The Corps of Engineers continued to work on the Installation
Facilities System-Redesign project, a sophisticated information management
system on VIABLE to support directors of engineering and housing at Army
installations. The Facilities Engineering Support Agency handled functional
aspects while the Information Systems Command developed the ADP systems. When
implemented in the third quarter of FY 85, the project will replace the present
system operating at seventy installations.

The Corps published two new guides during FY 84. The design
guide for libraries governed the layout of Army libraries and technical
information facilities, while the design protocol for interiors regulated the
specifications of all interiors for Army facilities.

The Army received four DOD Design Awards in FY 84, including
two shared with the Air Force:

The Backlog of Maintenance and Repair (BMAR) program improved
living and working conditions for U.S. troops, particularly those stationed
overseas. The Real Property Maintenance Activities (RPMA) program directed BMAR
activities based upon an FY 83 priority system that identified the most critical
projects requiring attention. RPMA's K account, Maintenance and Repair of Real
Property, expanded through the 1980s, reflecting an increased concern about the
relation of facility conditions to troop morale. As a result, the BMAR dropped
for three consecutive years with approximately $428 million contracted out
during FY 84.

A DOD memorandum of 18 June 1984 increased delegated
authority for repair projects to all services. Therefore, on 10 July the
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations and Logistic) redelegated
approval authority as follows:

COE-up to $3.0 million.
MACOM-up to $2.0 million.
MACOM-may redelegate authority to installation for up to $1.0 million.
MACOM-required to review repair projects for WWII temporary buildings costing
over $10,000 for compliance to DA policy.

On 13 February 1984, the Secretary of the Air Force
transferred Hamilton Air Force Base, California, to the Department of the Army.
The Army acquired approximately 762 acres of the base and retained care and
custody over the remainder. The House and Senate Appropriations Committees
approved the $3.5 million purchase of 39.49 acres of Ladycliff College, which
the Army had leased for use by the U.S. Army Military Academy since December
1982. The New York District of the Corps of Engineers received the deed on 28
June 1984. The Directorate of Real Estate and the Chicago Mill and Lumber
Company agreed on the purchase prices of two separate tracts of land for the
Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana. The first tract of 16,342.28
acres cost $14,543,280, exceeding appraised value by 9.5 percent and the second
tract of 2,355.34 acres sold for $2,355,000 or 13 percent over the appraisal.
With these purchases, the refuge totaled 35,523 acres.

The Department of Defense issued policy guidelines (DOD
Directive 4700.3) on making DOD lands available for private exploration and
extraction of resources on 28 September 1984. The Army was the Executive Agent
for the directive, which stated that such activities may be allowed if they
would not interfere with military operations, national defense activities, or
Army civil works projects. The Property Review Board declared 150 acres of land
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Department of Army requirements. In addition, the Sacramento
District Real Estate Division sent a right of entry and draft lease to Alameda
County on 1 June 1984. The lease formed the basis for a homeless shelter, DOD's
largest, comprising two buildings, and two acres of land. Effective 1 July, the
county undertook the two-year lease that required the state to assume law
enforcement functions in the shelter area prior to occupancy.

In December 1981, Public Law 97-128 terminated construction
of Meramec Park Lake, Missouri, and made COE responsible for offering previous
landowners the opportunity to repurchase their property (less that already
conveyed to Missouri) at current appraised value. The St. Louis District
completed an appraisal which showed that 26 percent of the properties increased
over 50 percent in value since the original purchase and 25 percent dropped by
50 percent or more in value. The Corps expected some previous owners to react
adversely to their higher repurchase costs. COE mailed the first letters to over
600 former property owners in November 1983. In December, more than 100 owners
met to denounce their appraisal and to discuss legal action. Subsequently, they
filed a law suit to nullify the conveyance of land in the Meramec Basin to the
Missouri Department of Natural Resources and to arrange a formula for setting
resale prices that the landowners felt would be fair.

The Departments of Interior, Agriculture, Defense, and the
Tennessee Valley Authority issued final regulations in the Federal Register on 6
January 1984 that established uniform procedures for implementing provisions of
the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979. The 1979 act replaced a
78-year-old measure archaeologists said was ineffective in preventing people
from selling or destroying priceless artifacts unearthed on federal land. The
Corps' Directorate of Real Estate acted as DOD's Executive Agent. One aspect of
the new regulations allowed recognized Indian tribes to testify before permits
are issued for archaeological excavations in areas outside their reservations
that they consider important for ceremonial or religious reasons. However, some
Indian groups remained displeased, because the new act still allowed burial
sites to be excavated once the archaeologists have obtained the necessary
permits.

Senate Report 97-440 directed the services to dispose of
their WW II temporary buildings by 1990, to limit any further expenditures on
them, and to replace them, where necessary, with pre-engineered buildings. As a
result, the VCSA signed a policy letter in February on the disposal of WWII
temporary buildings containing nearly 38 million square feet of space. This
letter was an attempt to address con-

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gressional concerns while protecting favorable MCA funding
and maintaining the missions of the installations.

The Corps of Engineers satisfied Delaware's urgent need for
solid waste landfill areas by allowing the Delaware Solid Waste Authority to
establish a disposal site at the Corps' Cherry Island Disposal Area. The
agreement for joint use allowed the Delaware Solid Waste Authority to use
immediately the first of five incremental land areas they would receive. The
discontinuance of Corps use of 210 acres on Cherry Island depended upon Delaware
providing the Corps a replacement disposal area for dredge spoil. The land
exchange will occur in the near future.

The Directorate of Real Estate recommended that the Secretary
of the Army convey 37.6 acres of land and water areas at the Newt Graham Lock
and Dam No. 18, Oklahoma, to the city of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority. The
Port Authority asked for this real estate to meet the expected growth of
waterfront and industrial activities at the public port facility. The Port
Authority agreed to pay $950,000 and to assume the responsibility for dredging
the turning basin and maintaining the river banks in the area conveyed.

The Corps of Engineers concentrated most of their physical
security work overseas. In October 1983, it approved $738,000 for the
construction of security fencing, lighting, and aircraft hardstands at Mutlangen Air Base, Germany. The airbase at Greisham, Germany, received funding in
February 1984 for perimeter fencing and lighting.

Within the United States, the Corps, in November 1983,
approved $400,000 for security fencing and parking areas in the ammo limited
area of the Red River Ammunition Depot, Texas.